The man who produced “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” screwed up again, except worse – this show closed before it even opened.
Author: ArtsJournal2
In Honor Of Memorial Day, These Photos Of 100-Year-Old WWI Battlegrounds
“Even today, a century after the start of the Great War, the countryside still bears scars.”
Are Ernest Hemingway Books Unfilmable?
“Frank Borzage’s 1932 version of A Farewell To Arms is certainly a great movie, as sublime and rapturous as anything he made, but Borzage’s aesthetic values are the polar opposite of Hemingway’s – shimmering and intensely romantic, all his movies feel as if they were shot in heaven – and the result, which fits snugly into the director’s canon, has no place at all in the writer’s”
Next Big Data Crunching Target? How You Buy Books
“The Next Big Book’s dashboard, which Macmillan plans to give to its employees and authors over the next few months, allows the publishing company to see what factors — from Facebook posts to book reviews to appearances on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ — are most influential on sales.”
Diners Aren’t Critics, And Chefs Should Defy Those Who Pretend To Be
“When the creative self is unjustly maligned, it sometimes feels the need to respond in a way that might well be even more interesting than the work (or the meal) under debate. That might not be good for business, but it’s good for the cultivation of celebrity status. Heck, it’s good for the creative vitality of a city and its myriad art forms.”
British Exams Drop ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ ‘Of Mice and Men’ From Syllabus
“The decision to drop the works by the US authors was because of the Department for Education’s desire for the exam to be more ‘more focused on tradition’ and there were fewer opportunities to include them in the new syllabus.”
Norman Rockwell Works Join The Stratosphere
“Apart from any critical reappraisal, Rockwell’s paintings show that in art, as well as in the stock market, it can pay to be a contrarian. Rockwell’s paintings have turned out to be a singularly good investment.”
You A Writer? Prepare For A Lifetime Of Humiliation
“It is much better for a writer to be underrecognized than over, in terms of keeping one’s head down, like the proverbial Japanese nail, so that one might observe the world unhammered and unimpeded. Abjure fame and avoid obscurity. But between those extremes lies the perch where a writer occasionally might do some good work.”
So, The First Pot Concert Happened At The Colorado Symphony
“The first of three fundraisers in which invite-only attendees were encouraged to bring their own marijuana, Friday’s ‘Classically Cannabis’ event also featured a patio on which attendees casually smoked pot from joints, vaporizer pens and glass pipes under umbrellas as a light rain fell.”
All Of The Winners – Predicted And Surprise – At Cannes
“Many were sceptical that the film – a Chekhovian drama about an isolated actor dealing with marital breakdown in the mountains – would make it past a number of other strong contenders to finally claim the top prize.”